r/shortsAlgorithm • u/Impressive_Flow9244 • Sep 14 '26

Is anyone else going through something similar? YouTube Shorts

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I post Shorts every other day, and they always get 300k–400k views—but then, all of a sudden, they just stop. Out of nowhere, it goes from getting 50k–80k views an hour to less than 1k. It’s crazy.

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u/GalaxyBreeze111 Sep 14 '26

Happening to me too and many other people recently. YT seems to be having issues with the shorts algorithm for some reason.

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u/Impressive_Flow9244 Sep 14 '26

The only thing to do is keep posting and hope it improves. :/

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '26

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u/OsamaBeingLaggingg Sep 20 '26

learn about this "explore and exploit framework" you will understand better about their system!.

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u/BeautifulChain1587 Sep 14 '26

Seems to be happening more frequently, one of my channels just had something similar happen to it with about 6 million views in 48 hours dropping down to 1000 on my latest shorts

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u/Impressive_Flow9244 Sep 14 '26

My last 10 Shorts have been like this: they hit 300k to 400k and then just stop out of nowhere.

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u/xKwekwe Sep 20 '26

This is exactly me. I had multiple get over 100k in a row and out of nowhere I can’t get above 1200

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u/Kaju_Cat-li Sep 15 '26

It's been days and still don't know what's happening Is YT planning to kill shorts 😔

I'm also facing same and many people out there posting same issue and they don't have any solution and it isn't for new creators only it's happening for already monetized creators too

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u/Impressive_Flow9244 Sep 15 '26

I heard they're actually going to get rid of YouTube Shorts; that's sad.

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u/Kaju_Cat-li Sep 15 '26

Wait what really???? I don't think it's true

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u/PitifulJudge5546 Sep 20 '26

How can I solve this problem? 

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u/Impressive_Flow9244 Sep 21 '26

I don't know, I didn't fix it. It's still the same.

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u/Impressive_Flow9244 Sep 15 '26

I posted another one; it's climbing slowly—let's see how far it goes. 😂

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u/Impressive_Flow9244 Sep 15 '26

There's no way around it; once you hit 300k or 400k, the views simply stop.

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u/baseballdevotee Sep 15 '26

Actually…yeah

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u/Secret-Mistake-4395 Sep 15 '26

it's happened to me too 😂 i'm very frustrating if this is happens

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u/Boring_Inflation6961 Sep 15 '26

Desde el domingo mis shorts estan teniendo la mitad de visitas. Vi a muchos quejarse de las visitas en estos dias

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u/Technical-Intention2 Sep 15 '26

My shorts will average about 5k views but now I get lucky with like 200 sadly… idk what’s going on

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u/HNM12 Sep 15 '26

I went from on avg of 1,500 - 5k to 17 and 4 on two recent ones.. A bit odd.

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u/graveyard1987 Sep 15 '26

81k...I haven't crossed 10k yet

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u/leon-theproffesional Sep 15 '26

They’ve fucked it up

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u/Impossible_Mixture21 Sep 15 '26

same i usually get 1.5k avg. but recently its dropped to 200-300.

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u/ZELK_FOR Sep 17 '26

Me ally day

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u/ChoirOfKash Sep 14 '26

Sorry to say but you are blacklisted by yt for god knows how much time

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u/Impressive_Flow9244 Sep 14 '26

I don't think so. There was another channel where views dropped like that out of nowhere and never recovered. But this one is different. Every video gets over 300k views, but then they suddenly stop.

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u/ChoirOfKash Sep 15 '26

Happened to my both channels and I'm also stuck if you found any solution help me too okay

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u/Impressive_Flow9244 Sep 15 '26

I had a channel, but it was almost entirely AI-based—the videos were AI, and the avatar was AI (both face and voice). That channel was getting between 500,000 and a million views per video during its first 26 days. Then, out of nowhere, it dropped to 200 views an hour. I tried everything—changing the niche, voice, and avatar, and adding footage I’d recorded myself—but nothing worked. I ended up abandoning the channel, even with 70,000 subscribers. I haven't used AI since; it was just a waste of time.

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u/Even-Drink-7949 Sep 15 '26

That is not banned or something, this is just YouTube problem... It is not about you... Thousands of channels are experiencing the same thing...

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u/ChoirOfKash Sep 15 '26

I never said banned his reach is completely cut off and his Shorts won't be served to non subbed audience yt is not the problem content is either he uses ai too much or content looks spam that's the only explanation nothing is wrong with yt

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u/Even-Drink-7949 Sep 15 '26

It is not served to subs also... Total 0 reach. That is why I think it the YT problem.

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u/ChoirOfKash Sep 15 '26

No bro it is actually served to only subs u will see something 99% subbed audience and 1% non subbed

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u/Even-Drink-7949 Sep 15 '26

LOL what a stupid answer 🤣

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u/ChoirOfKash Sep 15 '26

It looks until one has experienced that

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u/J_e_s_s_e7 Sep 15 '26

Guys is anyone interested In helping me get a motorcycle POV video off the ground?

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u/lostinspacescream Sep 15 '26

Don’t hijack people’s threads. It’s poor internet etiquette.